(HealthDay News) – In a ruling that will curb efforts to fight climate change, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate carbon emissions from power plants. The 6-3 decision comes as scientists are warning about the growing threat posed by global warming. It could potentially extend to other… read on > read on >
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it has asked vaccine makers to update their COVID-19 booster shots to target the Omicron subvariants known as BA.4 and BA.5. The two highly contagious subvariants now account for more than half of all new COVID cases in the United States. “As we move into the… read on > read on >
After being infected with COVID-19 earlier this month, Dr. Anthony Fauci experienced a rebound after taking the antiviral pill Paxlovid, but he maintained on Wednesday that the drug kept him out of the hospital. “Paxlovid did what it was supposed to do,” Fauci, 81, told the New York Times. He added that he thought the… read on > read on >
A therapy that uses a virus to kill tumor cells can be safely given to children with a rare, incurable form of brain cancer, an early study has found. The study — published June 30 in the New England Journal of Medicine — involved just 12 children with the disease, called diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma… read on > read on >
If you survive cancer, you’re more apt to have heart trouble later on, a new study shows. Researchers found that compared to others, cancer survivors had a 42% greater risk of heart disease, most likely due to damage resulting from cancer treatment. “There are chemotherapies that can damage the heart, and radiation to the chest… read on > read on >
Banking samples of your own poop in your youth and then transplanting them back when you’re old might be a key to healthy aging, scientists suggest. Stool samples frozen and stored when a person is vital and healthy could potentially rejuvenate bacteria in the gut that’s become damaged due to aging, disease or antibiotic use,… read on > read on >
THURSDAY, June 30, 2022 (American Heart Association News) — Noelia Gutierrez appreciated her mother traveling from New York to Florida to help with the arrival of her third child. One day, Gutierrez decided to have a fun lunch: She would introduce her mom to sushi. And her brother, a flight attendant who was on the… read on > read on >
Anticipating a surge in booster shots this fall, the U.S. government said Wednesday that it is buying an added 105 million more doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. The $3.2 billion deal comes at a time when the government is trying to figure out the best way to update COVID vaccines to deal with the ever-changing… read on > read on >
Women are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease than men, and a new study shows that certain brain changes known to increase this risk may accrue during menopause. Women who have gone through menopause have more white matter hyperintensities in their brains than premenopausal women or men of the same age, researchers found. These are… read on > read on >
Many U.S. parents don’t take proper precautions to protect their children from fireworks-related burns and injuries, claims a new survey released just ahead of the Fourth of July. The poll of more than 2,000 parents of children ages 3-18 was conducted this spring and found that more than half said someone in their family or… read on > read on >
